URBAN SHOTS BRIGHT LIGHTS

After being unemployed for
four years, it’s hard to smile. Tuitions brought in some money but the damn
inflation was wreaking havoc with my monthly budget. Loans had mounted to
dangerous levels and I had become desperate to do something’. Urban Shots: Bright
Lights is a kaleidoscopic collection of short stories, at once delightful,
intense and disturbing, each narrated with an honesty of voice that peels off
the layers of contemporary India to reveal its core. In the humorous ‘Maami
Menace’, Sathyavati racks her brains to escape an over bearing elderly lady
the charming ‘Good Morning Nikhil’ follows a baby’s antics around the house
and in the curiously touching ‘Hot Masala’, Mr. Kamath hatches a wicked plan
to show his family better days. Filled with compassion, wisdom and gentle
humor, the stories in this anthology are as much about urban India as they
are about the flawed people who inhabit it.